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In Honor of the Muppets’ Return
The Muppets are honorary statesmen in the New JeffLand Empire and Willie Nelson? Well, the guy’s a legend.
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Remember The Rathole?
I’ve had this draft hanging out on my dashboard since July and I figure it’s time to finish it off…
July was a wet month with some torrential downpours. Because of it, I posted to Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/jeeprock/status/94508774924103680
I realized that I was dating myself because some people (younger folks) on the Twitter had no idea what The Rathole was!! I had to admit that I was shocked at this because The Rathole was a complete traffic abomination by the end of it’s life and was completely hated by most Edmontonians.
- Edmonton’s hated Rathole
At the time of its construction in 1927, The Rathole was lauded from an engineering perspective and was a source of controversy right from the start. The contract for the construction was awarded to a contractor who hadn’t turned in the lowest bid and would ultimately result in legal proceedings.
The Rathole would live for 73 years chock full of traffic jams, semi-trucks driving tall loads into it’s concrete face and flooding with approximately 27,000 cars driving through it, per day, near it’s demise.
In 2000, it was finally demolished and replaced with a fabulous six lane free-flow roadway that would eliminate the traffic horrors in the area. However, for as much of a nightmare The Rathole was, it’s hard to imagine that there would be people who wouldn’t be aware of it’s legacy!
Anyway, for those who are interested… there are a few articles I’ve linked below. I’m also trying out some QR codes so get yourself a QR code reader and get scanning!
Standard General – The Rathole Project
The Edmonton Public Library – A City Called Home
The Edmonton Public Library – Rathole Infofile
Fuck
This wordpress app for iOS is garbage.
Whatevs.
Holy crap.
This site is still hanging on by a thread… clinging to existence by the mere fact that it’s a bigger pain in the ass to kill it than it is to allow it to barely live.
The NJLE has been also keeping going; there’s been a lot of blog-worthy events that I could have written about with a lot of humorous goings-on that I could have turned into entertaining posts. Life has a way of making itself into great stories. So why didn’t I document these events and potentially generate some traffic to this site?
Because I didn’t fucking feel like it, ok?
I am the King and this is my kingdom and my site and I will do whatever the hell I damn well please and I didn’t feel like writing at that time. And that was a run-on sentence and I don’t care because this is my gig. So fuck off. (lolz. just kidding, don’t really fuck off. take your coat off. hang out.)
Or don’t. Whatevs.
Anyway, before I get too stand-offish about the whole thing; I’m going to try to do better and come back here more. WordPress has really introduced some new features to make it a lot more fun to share and read and connect with other WordPress users… like Tumblr and their ilk have done.
Or not. Whatevs.